Japan Revives Intelligence
Japan’s government has set up a new service to efficiently protect secrets of ministries and departments against foreign intelligence, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki. So Japan appears absolutely resolved to bid farewell to the legacy of the WW2 and turn into a state with powerful armed forces, intelligence and counterintelligence.
Japan has set up a special committee to present to the government by late February the plan of creating a centralized counterintelligence service , Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki told reporters Monday. The service will include representatives of the Foreign Ministry, Defense Agency, National Police Agency and National Security Agency.
The centralized service of counterintelligence will be subordinate directly to the prime minister and its key concern will be protecting secrets of Japan against foreign intelligence. In addition, it will focus on preventing the actions of terror, gathering information about natural disasters and promptly responding to them.
Suicide of the official of Japanese Consulate in Shanghai committed in May 2004 was an incitement to creating the service, Shiozaki specified. That suicide of the diplomat was just the right cause to revive the efficient and powerful intelligence, which Japan lost after the WW2, an expert of Russia said on condition of anonymity.
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